The police officers from Iheagwa Division, Imo State, have arrested a man for allegedly butchering a pregnant woman to death with a dagger at Umuejechi Nekede autonomous community in Owerri West Local Government.
The man identified as Justice Anokam is said to be one of the convicts who escaped during the Imo prison break.
Locals who caught the suspect attempted to lynch him but police from Ihiagwa division intervened.
The unidentified victim was a tenant in the area but an indigene of Ohaji/Egbema LGA of Imo.
A resident, Iyke Opara, said the pregnant woman came out from the popular Ama-Ato junction before she was accosted by the suspect.
Opara said the suspect has been terrorizing the community since he escaped from the April 2021 prison break in Imo.
